Random walks in two-dimensional random environments with constrained drift forces
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 31 (6) , 3841-3845
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.31.3841
Abstract
Random walks in two-dimensional environments with a positionally random drift force are analyzed. If the force is constrained to be divergence-free, then the mean-square displacement is superdiffusive 〈¯〉∼t (lnt. If in addition the force has a component which is curl-free, there are two cases: If the two components are independent, the long-time behavior is diffusive with only logarithmic corrections; on the other hand, if the two components of the force are, respectively, parallel and perpendicular to the gradients of a single strongly fluctuating potential, the long-time behavior is subdiffusive and dominated by the longitudinal part.
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